Nisha Grice

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(BA, IBCLC, Midwife-to-Be)
Serving the Twin Cities

With 15 years of board certified lactation consultant practice and professional experience in labor and postpartum, neonatal intensive care, and pediatric settings, I got you.If you need birth, lactation, and pregnancy recommendations based on current evidence that respects your family's needs? I provide tech support for the hardest job in the world.

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About Me

My interest in health grew out of experiences with providing kinship care and observing the healthcare careers of family which drew me to midwifery at a young age. At 19, I completed a Doulas of North America training which introduced to homebirth via a homebirth CPM in New Orleans, LA.I then spent a lot of time learning about birth and traveling the United States, eventually settling in the Seattle area. In 2007 I began postpartum nursing assistant work in the first WHO "Baby Friendly" hospital in the United States, where I received a thorough introduction to lactation, and absolutely fell in love with the field. By 2010 I'd qualified as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and saw lactation clients in private practice, in addition to postpartum work in a small community hospital birth center.In 2013 I transitioned to a level IV NICU, which was a profoundly educational experience. It taught me the myriad of ways birth can impact people's lives in a sociocultural context. In 2015 I completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Washington Seattle in Social Science with a minor in Medical Anthropology.I love to travel, and in 2016 I moved to Norway, where I lived for seven years. After a short assignment working with the deaf elderly (where I learned Norwegian Sign Language in order to communicate with residents!) I settled in for a five year period at Oslo University Hospital Ullevål in the pediatrics department, focusing on infant feeding and non-invasive respiratory support. It was my pleasure to care for infants with tracheostomies from the time of initial procedure until I helped train the care teams that followed them home when they were stable enough to leave the hospital.Being the unit's go-to person for babies helped me realize that it had been wonderful to gain a wealth of other clinical knowledge and experience, but new families were her "hjertebarn" as the Norwegians say. It was finally time to answer midwifery's call.In 2023 I returned to my home state of Michigan and enrolled in Southwest Wisconsin Technical College's direct entry midwifery program. I believe that CPMs are critical to the future of better birth outcomes in the United States and I'm excited to join the effort.In 2024 my midwifery journey brought me to Minneapolis, where I have a student clinical placement in a freestanding community birth center.I check out too many books from the library at once, I'm passionate about music and all the ways it connects and heals people. I love yin yoga, and lifting weights, and all things covered in sequins. If I'm not traveling, or reading, or singing at the top of my lungs, I'm probably writing speculative fiction.

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